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A Statewide “relay” boycott of outpatient (OP) clinics successful authorities aesculapian colleges by the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) arsenic portion of an ongoing protestation against the government’s neglect of their long-standing demands is entering the sixth week.
As portion of the ongoing agitation, doctors successful aesculapian colleges crossed the State volition boycott each outpatient services and mentation classes for aesculapian students connected Saturday (November 29, 2025).
However, the attraction for in-patients, behaviour of surgeries and each exigency services successful the casualty, labour room, and ICU and exigency surgeries volition not beryllium affected by the protest, the KGMCTA said.
The agitation volition proceed and the KGMCTA volition enactment distant from each authoritative discussions. They volition besides clasp protestation meetings successful each aesculapian colleges.
The KGMCTA said that they were forced to intensify their agitation arsenic the authorities has chosen to disregard the long-standing demands of doctors. It appealed to the nationalist to debar infirmary visits for non-emergency needs connected the protestation days truthful that they were not enactment to difficulties.
Pay revision
The KGMCTA besides urged the authorities to resoluteness the issues raised by doctors, including the rectification of wage revision anomalies and discrepancies successful the entry-level wage of Assistant Professors. This was important due to the fact that mediocre wage astatine the introduction level was discouraging young doctors from joining the aesculapian acquisition service.
It demanded that the wage revision arrears pending since 2016 beryllium disbursed immediately. It pointed retired that portion the arrears of each State authorities employees were paid by the authorities successful 4 instalments, the doctors continued to beryllium denied the wage arrears.
The KGMCTA besides demanded that capable module posts beryllium created successful caller aesculapian colleges arsenic per National Medical Commission norms and successful each different aesculapian colleges based connected diligent load, arsenic the presently sanctioned posts are highly insufficient.
